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The 36-hour window is the story. Within that window, a Vance airlift was physically scheduled, a Geneva ceremony was on the calendar, four C-17s were in flight, and Iran's spokesperson was on the wire saying the memorandum 'will not be signed on Sunday.' Two parallel texts circulated in official channels and are mutually exclusive on (a) signing date, (b) Hormuz governance, (c) nuclear compliance scope, (d) sanctions sequencing. The IRNA seven-point text keeps all nuclear material on Iranian soil, defers enrichment caps to a 60-day second phase, and says maritime security 'would be handled by regional coastal states.' Trump's Truth Social claims the strait would be 'open to all' immediately on signing and describes it as 'a wall to no nuclear weapon.' Araghchi separately told Press TV that Iran and Oman would continue to administer the strait. The Soufan Center IntelBrief and IISS analyses confirm Washington returned the draft to Tehran with two unmet conditions — defined nuclear-compliance schedule and immediate Hormuz reopening — neither of which appears in the IRNA text. The Soufan assessment is the structural reason no replacement date has been set.

The Vance airlift is the verifiable physical commitment. 'Four C-17s en route' is a claim that can be checked against ADS-B Exchange, OpenSky, and the public Geneva airport slot schedule. The Geneva venue itself is verifiable: Bloomberg reported Geneva; Baghaei explicitly denied any Geneva trip. If the C-17s were actually en route on the published airlift timeline, the physical commitment is on the record and the diplomatic denial is the only fact that cancels the ceremony. If the C-17s were not en route, the airlift is a Truth Social claim, and the physical record is consistent with the denial. The flight tracking is the test. It has not been run on the public record by either side.

The 38-prior-deal-announcements tally is the credibility-cost structure. Tasnim News Agency counted 38 prior Trump announcements that a deal was imminent. The 38th is the only one accompanied by a planned Vance airlift and a designated Geneva venue — a physical escalation that nonetheless rests on a text the adversary denies. The piece is not a 39th iteration. The piece is the first announcement in the cycle where the physical commitment was real (or claimed to be) and the adversary's denial arrived in time to actually cancel the ceremony. The difference is structural, not rhetorical.

The two approvers named in the same Trump post are themselves the architecture. Netanyahu's office stated within hours that Israel was 'not a party to the memorandum of understanding.' Axios reported (citing a mediating diplomat) that Khamenei had 'yet to give final approval' and was 'likely not' to have approved. Two named approvers publicly contradicted the approver designation the same day. The Soufan Center's gap analysis shows the texts are not minor variants — they are different agreements on nuclear, Hormuz, and sanctions. The Sharif 'final and agreed upon' X post is a third-party mediator's premature endorsement that Vance's 'still TBD' rebutted within hours, and Baghaei's same-day denial rendered moot within 24 hours.

The only verifiable physical fact is the blockade. Trump's own post keeps the blockade 'in full force and effect' in the same sentences announcing the supposed deal. Araghchi's CNBC characterization — the blockade 'is an act of war' — is incompatible with the Trump framing. The structural finding is that the announcement was a blockade-maintained ceasefire, not a peace settlement. Any country named as an 'approver' in the post inherits the credibility record of the previous 37 announcements. The 36-hour window is the verifiable record: a Vance airlift was physically scheduled, four C-17s were in flight (or claimed to be), the Geneva venue was on the Bloomberg calendar, and Baghaei was already on the wire saying 'will not be signed on Sunday.' The ceremony that was already canceled before it happened is the story.